Halter



- (Model) 1 G. B.--MAUK & V. PERRY.

Halter- No. 237,031', Patented Jan. 25,1881.

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GILBERT B. MAUK AND VELEY PERRY, OF GREENUP, ILLINOIS.

HALTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,031, dated January 25, 1881.

Application filed June 23, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GILBERT B. MAUK and VEL Y PERRY, each residing at Greenup, in the county of Cumberland and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Halters, of which the following is a specification.

The figure of the drawing represents a perspective View of a halter embodying our improvements.

This invention relates to halters for horses; and it consists in theimproved features of construction and combination hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referrin gby letter to the accompanyin gdrawing, B designates the cr0wn-strap, connected by loops A to the rings M, and provided with the buckle H, for buckling the halter on the horses head.

O (l designate the brow-strap, secured by loops to the rings M, the loops of the browstrap and the crown-strap being connected by metal braces G G, to maintain these two straps in the position shown in the drawing.

D D E E indicate the nose-strap, provided with the ring K at its rear end. An adjustable strap, F, for supporting the nosestrap, is passed through the loop P of a ring, L, which encircles the strap D E, where it is doubled to hold the ring K, thence up on the inside of the rings M M, through the same loosely, and down to the nose-strap, where it is provided at each end with loops N N, which loosely encircle the nose-strap, as shown.

The hitch-strap (not shown) is fastened to the ring K, and by drawing rearwardly on the I samethe nose-strap may be contracted around thehorsesnose. Bypullingdownonthehitchstrap the strap F will slide through the rings M M, and the nose-strap will be slipped upward on the animals nose. By releasing the hitch-strap the parts will assume an easy and natural position.

This halter is useful in breaking horses of 5 pulling on the hitch-strap, and is convenient in leading unruly horses, as it tightens as they pull on the hitch-strap and subjects them to inconvenience. It is also easily fitted to heads of different sizes, and is as cheaply manufactured as halters of the ordinary construction.

We are aware that slip-halters are notbroadly new, and we desire only to claim the construction herein described.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a halter, the combination, with the crownstrap B, having buckle H, and the brow-strap O G, secured to the rings M and connected by the braces G G, of the nose-strap D D E E, provided with the ring K, and the supportingstrap F, provided with the loop-ring P L, passed through the rings M M, and connected to the nose-strap by the loops N N, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

GILBERT B. MAUK. VELEY PERRY.

Witnesses:

HIRAM M. BRIGHT, JAMES L. RYAN. 

